Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Cornelia Parker giving a thumbs-up to builders working on her installation, “Transitional Object: (PsychoBarn)” at the Roof Garden of the Metropolitan Museum. Credit: Caitlin Ochs for The New York Times

British artist Cornelia Parker's Transitional Object: (PsychoBarn) installation opens on Tuesday in the Met’s Roof Garden Commissions series. The site specific project was assembled at two-thirds of the scale of a real house and with only two finished sides, just like the film set of the 1960 Hitchcock film “Psycho”.

A scene from Hitchcock’s film “Psycho,” whose house gave Ms. Parker part of her inspiration.Credit:Paramount Pictures